“I’m less concerned with what autistic people are saying than what the people speaking over autistic people are saying.”

I suggest you read what people — especially autistic self-advocates — are actually saying about this conversation, rather than simply through Jezebel. I assure you, they manage to hold several criticisms in their head at the same time.

If we’re going to say that neurotypical actors can’t play characters with ASD because they don’t have that lived experience, actors with ASD who don’t have the same diagnosis as the character also don’t have that lived experience.

It’s not an either/or thing. One of the reasons autistic self-advocates talk about ditching the “functioning” designation is because of how many autists were diagnosed as “low functioning” as children due to being non-verbal, and later learned how to mask well enough that people dismissed them as “oh, you don’t know…

Democrats denied a quorum to advance her nomination (committee rules state that two minority members must be present to conduct business), which was about the best defense a minority can use, and the Republicans broke the rules, ignored the committee’s quorum requirements, and voted anyway. I’m not sure what else you…

Hemsworth is almost certainly not participating because he’s not American, and he, his wife, and his kids all live in Australia. And I don’t know what Jeremy Renner’s political affiliation is, but after his ex-wife alleged that he threatened to kill her, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to distance…

It is excruciating to watch, frankly. Sudeikis is better, and Woody Harrilson played Biden best, imo.

You can blame it on the lack of primary challengers, or whatever you’d like to blame it on, but the fact remains that Sanders lost not just one, but two primaries. He did not have the votes in 2016, and he did not have the votes in 2020. People did not vote for him; they chose someone else both times. Full stop.…

You are giving the DNC way more credit, influence, and power than they actually have. Members within the organisation, being Democrats, can certainly prefer one candidate over another. But they ultimately cannot make people vote a certain way, and the fact of the matter is, 16 million people voted for Clinton in the…

It’s legit. The first big brouhaha involving Caroline Calloway was that she was offered a massive 6 figure book deal based on those captions, but then flaked on finishing the book and was forced to pay back the publisher. Then it later came out that those captions were ghostwritten by her friend, and the girl tried to…

I thought she really missed an opportunity to point out that he was laughing about his own constituents dying. It’s one thing to see it with our own eyes, but he should have had to answer for it in the debate.

The Discourse is only happening because there are a lot of people who are very wrong about history and very loud about it.

Based on nothing. Q-Anoners have even accused Tom Hanks of pedophilia based on nothing. We’re talking about a group that lives so far outside reality that they believed Hillary Clinton ran a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza joint without a basement.

Extremely so, and they are very organized! 

Wow, I had no idea they thought that about Pence. I’ve had difficulty keeping up with their constantly shifting ideology. Even people who have studied Q-Anon and written articles or done videos basically have to preface their work by saying, “By the time this airs/is published, it’ll probably be out of date.” 

I think the issue with Teigen and Legend in particular is that their trolls are extremely virulent Q-anon supporters who have accused the couple of pedophilia and are using this miscarriage as proof that they -- i don’t know, what is the current Q-anon view? Eat babies? Drink their blood? Anyway, that. And it’s…

Feinstein is 87; she’ll be 92 by 2025, when her seat is up. I don’t always agree with her, and I think she’s still very sharp, but I highly doubt she’ll run again.

I don’t care what backpack she buys for her daughter, I just want her to pay more taxes.

I feel the same. I stayed up last time and was so devastated that my husband had to finally tell me to just go to bed.

Sweetheart, I mean this in the kindest way possible: why are you marrying this person?